My New Painting, 4th "Ephemeral" Exhibit in Tokyo at Jiro Miura Gallery

"Yé-Yé Girl With Guitar", 2021 ©Amy Crehore, 

oil on stretched linen 14" x 14" plus frame 15 3/4"x 15 3/4"

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Here's the new painting that I created for the 4th Ephemeral-Territory of Girls Exhibit in Tokyo, Japan opening Sept. 18th-Oct. 3rd, 2021. I was inspired by the French Yé-Yé Girls of the sixties. This all-women show takes place every two years at Jiro Miura Gallery. I am honored to have been in every show since the beginning. The theme is girls. As usual, there will be a catalog of the show with an image and profile of each artist. Here is a list of the amazing artists in this year's show:

Kaori Aoki, Momoko Akaike, Emi Adachi, Dilka Bear, Jana Brike, Nicoletta Ceccoli, Amy Crehore, Olga Esther, Yuko Fukase, Ai Gonoi, Atsuko Goto, Mao Hamaguchi, Kumiko Higami, Miho Hirano, Miki Kato, Audrey Kawasaki, Rie Kawabe, Kisaki yaya, Chihiro Kogure, Kozue Kuroki, Kimi Kuruhara, Satomi Kuwahara, Selena Leardini, Tracy Lewis, Hiroko Maki, Shiori Matsumoto, Miro Meguro, Kana Miyamoto, Yu Miyazaki, Eri Mizuno, Margaret Morales, Virginia Mori, Yuko Murai, Yuko Nagami, Yuki Nagayoshi, Yumi Nakai, Kaori Ogawa, Saki Ozabu, Yuka Sakuma, Mayuko Sasaoka, Harumi Shinozuka, Kazune Shintaku, Amy Sol, Makiko Sugawa, Minae Takada, Ania Tomicka, Tsubaki Torii, Yuki Toyonaga, Fuco Ueda, Masumi Yamamoto, Chie Yoshii 

JIRO MIURA GALLERY
4F Ishikura Building, 2-5, Nihombashi-Odenmacho, Chuo-ku,
103-0011 Tokyo, Japan
Tel : +81-3-6661-7687
E-Mail : info@jiromiuragallery.com

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Presenting Tickler # 3: "Twitch" Concert Ukulele designed by Amy Crehore, built by Lou Reimuller

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Presenting the Tickler #3- A Concert Ukulele, “Twitch” by Amy Crehore (instrument designer, painter, illustrator) and Lou Reimuller (luthier, sculptor, musician and creator of Teenar): a uniquely designed and painted concert ukulele by artist Amy Crehore, lovingly hand-built to Amy's design with great attention to detail by luthier Lou Reimuller.

Featuring:

1.   Honduras mahogany sides with a beautiful, figured mahogany back

2.   Carbon fiber reinforced mahogany neck with ebony center stripe on back

3.   Maple top hand-painted with original painting by artist Amy Crehore

4.   Hand-carved ebony bridge (Amy’s unique scroll design, sculpted by Lou Reimuller), bone saddle, ebony bridge pins with pearl dots

5.   Bound catwood (a.k.a. ziracote wood) fingerboard

6.   Bindings and back stripe made of boltaron, wood veneer, and fiber

7.   Tiny hand-carved bow tie on headstock sculpted by Lou Reimuller, endgraft inlay, heel cap, top inlay- all are made of stabilized green dyed figured maple

8.   Amy’s uniquely designed headstock is enhanced by an original painting. Painted areas are varnished with polyurethane (hard, abrasion-resistant finish).

9.   “Peghed” brand geared tuners

10. French polished back, sides and neck

11. Interior braces made of Adirondack spruce

12. Ebony nut

13. Bound oval sound hole, Tickler Ukulele label inside

14. Amazingly beautiful harp-like tone

15. Most of the wood has been aged for over 30 years

16. Dimensions: total length 23 ½”, scale length 15”, side depth 2 1/2” -2 7/8” , upper bout across 6 ¼”, lower bout 8”, body length 11 1/8”, waist 5” (Large and deep body)

Twitch was the name of a cat who inspired this one-of-a-kind fine art ukulele. Here's the link to process photos of this ukulele being made. And, here's the link to the only other ukulele that I designed from scratch, a pineapple soprano (Tickler #2, 2009, sold). Huge thanks go to Lou Reimuller (luthier) for his incredible craftsmanship and dedicated, hard work on both of these rare and special instruments. Note: the concert size is larger than a soprano.

Inquire: amy@amycrehore.com
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My Green Duco Vintage Ukulele

Nip-Cat Design for headstock of vintage green duco ukulele 1920's, copyright Amy Crehore

Back of my green duco-finish uke from the late 1920s. Click to enlarge.
There's a beautiful green duco-finish vintage ukulele in my collection that I am getting ready to enhance. I won't touch the back and sides, but I have something in mind for the headstock and part of the front. Here's my pencil sketch for the headstock design. I call it my "Nip-Cat" uke. I scanned the back of the actual uke on my scanner bed. You can see the gray and green crystallized finish. This baby was found in it's original Montgomery Ward mail order box and had never been played.
More of my hand-painted fine art ukes can be found here , here and here. Some are vintage and some are built from scratch. My Dreamgirl's gallery show in L.A. last year featured 13 of them including another duco (a black one) called The Demon.

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